# What's an "id sock"? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [November 30, 2009, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-an-id-sock/519485 "2009-11-30T16:51:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jimmy\_Joe\_Meager](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bb73d2/32.png) [@Jimmy\_Joe\_Meager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jimmy_Joe_Meager)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2009, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-an-id-sock/519485/1 "2009-11-30T16:51:51Z")
What is meant by the term “id sock”? I know what a sock is (in message-board-speak), I know what the id is (in Freud-speak), but what’s an “id sock”? [Cite](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=11828366&postcount=2) Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2009, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-an-id-sock/519485/2 "2009-11-30T17:04:52Z")
> [@Jimmy\_Joe\_Meager](#): > > What is meant by the term “id sock”? I know what a sock is (in message-board-speak), I know what the id is (in Freud-speak), but what’s an “id sock”? > > [Cite](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=11828366&postcount=2) > > Thanks. Judging from your link, I’d say calling a given user an ID sock is saying that that user’s online persona is not the face he or she presents to the 3D world, but rather an expression of feelings and thoughts the user ordinarily keeps concealed because said Fs & Ts are unacceptable among the user’s real-time acquaintances. ---
**Author:** ![Jimmy\_Joe\_Meager](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bb73d2/32.png) [@Jimmy\_Joe\_Meager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jimmy_Joe_Meager)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2009, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-an-id-sock/519485/3 "2009-11-30T17:27:22Z")
I see. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2009, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-an-id-sock/519485/4 "2009-11-30T17:39:03Z")
**An Arky** was saying that **Carol Stream** is a sock of another user (and I see no evidence for that theory), and acts as that poster’s id. Meaning some other poster is saying things as **Carol Stream** that he or she would not say under his other username. ---
**Author:** ![Hypnagogic\_Jerk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hypnagogic_jerk/32/4252_2.png) [@Hypnagogic\_Jerk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypnagogic_Jerk)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2009, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-an-id-sock/519485/5 "2009-11-30T21:21:56Z")
I didn’t interpret it as necessarily meaning that **Carol Stream** is actually a sock of another poster, though I guess it’s possible that this is what **An Arky** meant. To me, it just meant that she’s the voice of someone’s inner jerk. ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2009, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-an-id-sock/519485/6 "2009-12-02T02:40:17Z")
Id sock is one of the great violinists of our time. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2009, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-an-id-sock/519485/7 "2009-12-02T04:49:16Z")
Maybe ID was meant. Kidz theze dayz and there speelig. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2009, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-an-id-sock/519485/8 "2009-12-03T00:08:57Z")
never mind